Dragon Page Wingin’ It #21: Appreciating Dick
What’s on this week: Ways to Appreciate Dick
- Summer joins in the fun, and we have a studio audience again! Kameron and Rhion bring goodies, which Michael and Evo promptly begin to drink
- Is the Space Shuttle really helping us putting our best foot forward into space?
- What the Bleep?: population litmus test?
- Listener comments lead to a fascinating talk about the widespread appreciation for Dick, and the many different ways to enjoy Dick
- This week’s Duel of the Fates by Jack Mangan, we are into the second round and Spidey takes on Captain Kirk. Duel of the Fates will be taking next week off, but send in your final showdown ideas to duelofthefates @ gmail.com
(Jack’s forthcoming e-book, “Spherical Tomi”, will be published by Creative Guy Publishing.) - Mur Lafferty (Geek Fu Action Grip) Tells us about racism in WoW
- Scifi Poetry Slam! This week we present Area 51 by Robert G. Parent.
Plus NASA finds a new planet, Mike still can’t read, and more!
August 3rd, 2005 at 7:02 pm
The problem with What the Bleep Do We Know is that it’s a manipulative documentary… in the same way that Michael Moore doesn’t make real documentaries. Plenty of the scientists used in the movie feel that their views were misrepresented by careful editing.
It was interesting. Science was involved. But I think that it was vastly skewed from what quantum physicists might tell you in a classroom.
I did watch the movie with people who didn’t get it and wanted their two hours back. So I know the reaction you’re talking about, but I think it’s very risky to think that what the movie presented as truth is an actuality truth.
August 4th, 2005 at 3:02 am
Magess (see above) summed up my views on WtBDWK.
I know the frustration of watching it with people who don’t get “it”. While at the same time feeling the movie producers were manipulating the interviews to a particular outcome.
August 4th, 2005 at 6:36 am
See, if this would have been a show with careful editing Michael, one would have sufficient provided links here given in the show, but as it is a sloppy Evo show …
August 4th, 2005 at 7:46 am
Actually, that was my fault. I got distracted and forgot to add the links, so I am working on getting the post updated.
Hey, I did include the links for the Dick Appreciation Society…
August 4th, 2005 at 8:47 am
Okay. The bit about the Syllabary made me curious, so I looked it up. From Wikipedia:
“A syllabary is a set of written symbols that represent (or approximate) syllables, which make up words. A symbol in a syllabary typically represents an optional consonant sound followed by a vowel sound. In a true syllabary there is no systematic graphic similarity between phonetically related characters (though some do have graphic similarity for the vowels). That is, the characters for “ke”, “ka”, and “ko” have no similarity to indicate their common “k”-ness. Compare abugida, where each grapheme typically represents a syllable but where characters representing related sounds are similar graphically (typically, a common consonantal base is annotated in a more or less consistent manner to represent the vowel in the syllable).”
And for the full article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllabary
So, based on the article, it sounds like an alphabet is a set of symbols where each represent a distinct consonant or vowel sound, and a syllabary is a permuation of consonant and vowel combined into individual glyphs.
From the article above:
“The English language, on the other hand, allows more complex syllable structures, making it cumbersome to write English words with a syllabary. A “pure” syllabary would require a separate glyph for every syllable in English. Thus you would need separate symbols for “bag,” “beg,” “big,” “bog,” “bug;” “bad,” “bed,” “bid,” “bod,” “bud,” etc. However, such pure systems are rare. A work-around to this problem, common to several syllabaries around the world, is to write an echo vowel, as if the syllable coda was a second syllable: ba-ga or ba-gi for “bag”, etc. (Even with such a system, however, it would be cumbersome to write an English word like “strengths”.) Another common approach is to simply ignore the coda, so that “bag” would be written ba. This obviously would not work well for English.”
Ahem. Okay. Done now.
August 4th, 2005 at 1:40 pm
Chris, what an interesting and yet totally annoying system for a language.
August 4th, 2005 at 1:48 pm
Wow! Ok, that was just a whole lot more information than I actually needed regarding our “F”d-up, bastardized, language. *LOL*
Regardless, thanks for the hard work and research. I’m sure there are a few people out there that care. (Of course, they are also the same ones counting their Tic-Tacs to make sure they were not shorted a couple during packing.)
August 4th, 2005 at 2:13 pm
Clearly Michael won’t be subscribing to Verbatim magazine.
August 4th, 2005 at 5:59 pm
Just glad you guys liked the beer. And Heather’s very happy you scarfed down the seven-layer bars. Rhion says HI! and wants her own set of bongo’s now.
August 4th, 2005 at 6:49 pm
We we’re thrilled you stopped by. Next time stay around for the show. We love in-studio guests.
(BTW… That 10% alcohol beer was like what you would get if Guinness made a malt-liquor!) Wow, that was harsh.
So far the smoked porter is my favorite out of the batch you brought.
August 4th, 2005 at 7:27 pm
Hey…just ’cause I was short a few Tic Tacs, you know…*sigh*
*eyes Michael suspiciously*
Did YOU take them?
August 5th, 2005 at 7:50 pm
I feel minty-fresh. :^)
August 6th, 2005 at 8:33 pm
maybe the Ti Tacs are causing the Scooby laugh Mike :P…..ROFLAMO!
j/k :p
August 7th, 2006 at 7:27 pm
Good job.